I’ve fought alongside Senator @KamalaHarris for direct cash payments during the pandemic and for clean water as a human right. Now let’s defeat Trump and make those policies a reality, Rashida Tlaib.

[Kamala Harris] is responsive to activist and movement pressure to make climate a top priority.” Evan Weber, political director of the Sunrise Movement, applauding the partnership between Harris and AOC on Climate Legislation.

Congratulations to @KamalaHarris, who will make history as our next Vice President. She understands what it takes to stand up for working people, fight for health care for all, and take down the most corrupt administration in history. Let’s get to work and win. Congratulatory Tweet by Bernie Sanders.

Senator Kamala Harris is not my first choice for Biden’s Vice President but I think she is a good choice. She is smart, ambitious, and almost gorgeous. Most importantly, she doesn’t have a glass jaw and she should be able to easily take what ever Trump & Company are going to dish out (for the same reason as Ilhan Omar, Rashida Talib, Ayanna Pressley, and AOC are so tough; they are all smart, very agile, women of color and because of that they all grew up having to fight the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” {and President Trump & Company can certainly be described as outrageous fortune}).

As an sort of aside, people of color, especially women are almost always subtly judged to a higher standard than men, for example when Lyndon Johnson won over Barry Goldwater with 61% it was rightly reported as an “historic landslide”. When AOC beat a Wall Street and Chamber of Commerce supported competitor in this primary, with 74.6% percent of the vote, it was described as “surviving a well funded primary challenge”. End aside.

Harris is somewhat of a protégé  of Willie Brown, who, himself, is an amazing politician, having been born in the small jerkwater town of Mineola in East Texas, he ended up being arguably the most powerful person in Californian politics before he retired to become mayor of San Francisco. They dated in 1994-95 when she was an Assistant DA of Alameda County; he was 60 and she was 29. Willie Brown, I imagine, had a lot to teach Harris and Harris is proving to be an excellent student.

Harris is described as somewhat of an centrist but I do think she is to the left of Biden in both climate and racial issues still, that is hard to tell because both Biden and Harris are moving left with the Progressive tide. However, according to The Daily Beast, since January 2019, congressional records show that Harris has signed on to 18 bills Sanders introduced, while Sanders has similarly added his name on 20 pieces of legislation put forth by Harris. 

These are unusual times and everything I read says that pandemics usually lead to major changes so it should be an interesting time as well. Change does feels like it is in the air and that is thrilling but it is good to remember that “May you live in an interesting time” is a Chinese curse.